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Printable Page July/August 2008
Karen
Cultural Profile
The Karen, pronounced Kah- Ren (emphasis on the second syllable), are indigenous to the Thailand-Burma border region in Southeast Asia and are one of the many ethnic groups in Burma. There are Karen people throughout the country presently known as Burma or Myanmar. Due to the conflict, thousands of Karen refugees have crossed the border to Thailand for safety and live in one of twelve refugee camps. The refugee camps appear as extremely large villages of bamboo and thatch buildings along the Thai-Burma border. Approximately 150, 000 people live in these camps as of April 2008 and many are being resettled to third countries at this time. (Thailand Burma Border Consortium, 2008) As of 2008, 10,000 ethnic Karen and Chin refugees have resettled in the United States. (International Rescue Committee, 2007)
Nearly half the population in Burma's Delta that was hit by the cyclone in May 2008 was ethnic Karen. Many of the new arrivals in the U.S. have family in this area and it must be very difficult for them not to be able to help or contact their family members in the country.
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